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Montgomery County Democratic Committee

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Here's How the Montgomery County Democratic Party Wants You to Vote

Congressional redistricting, curbing police union powers and gambling expansion prove divisive as the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee offers its stand on 11 ballot questions.

  Yes to same-sex marriage, in-state tuition for undocumented students and curbing the county police union’s negotiating power. That’s Montgomery County Democratic party's message to voters as Marylanders headed to the polls for an Election Day some see as among the most momentous in state history. But on two of the crucial questions set for the Nov. 6 ballot—congressional redistricting and whether to up the ante for Maryland’s gambling industry—party dissent torpedoed any guidance. Party leaders, elected officials and roughly one-third of the party’s 330 representatives of Montgomery voting precincts hashed out the official party vision in a four-hour summit in Rockville in September that brought impassioned debate and at times exposed …

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